I need to uninstall ubuntu

John-in-France · 05-20-2008, 02:13 AM

Much as I like to find easy answers I'm not entirely sure that yaye is right in this case. I've tried to use fdisk /mbr from a Win98 boot on a Win XP drive. For some reason it wouldn't cope and I had to find my XP CD and use that with FIXMBR. However for a few minutes work - it's certainly worth the try.

Especially as I'm a bit lost on the Admin password issue. As I understand it, at the point in question Windows doesn't consider itself installed, so where is the password? Have you tried just hitting enter?

John

yaye · 05-20-2008, 06:09 AM

I've used fdisk /mbr before to remove the Linux bootloader. Check the latter part of this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q171611/

about removing Lilo. It also works for GRUB. In my response, I forgot that the drive may be SATA. In that case, the Windows 98 boot floppy may not work. He said it was an old desktop, so I thought it probably had PATA hard drive.

thunyiwe · 05-20-2008, 07:01 AM

Dear trekfan7

I am a newbie myself, but what i know is if you have a windows based partition program like partition magic you can delete linux(Ubuntu) partition and expand ur windows partition.

Duck2006 · 05-20-2008, 07:20 AM

This may help.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508927